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Catchment Action Plan: Technical briefing

Catchment Action Plan: Technical briefing. Presented by: Lyndal Hasselman Melissa Schrader. Tonight will give you An understanding of how systems thinking will be used An understanding of how your input will make a difference Confidence in the designed process. We will have:

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Catchment Action Plan: Technical briefing

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  1. Catchment Action Plan: Technical briefing Presented by: Lyndal Hasselman Melissa Schrader

  2. Tonight will give you • An understanding of how systems thinking will be used • An understanding of how your input will make a difference • Confidence in the designed process

  3. We will have: • Shared understanding of where we are going and how we will get there • Confidence that together we will work through the process and achieve positive outcomes • Recognition that all input is valuable

  4. Catchment action Plan(101)

  5. What is it? • Cabinet approved plan for the Lachlan Catchment • Helps to set priorities for using our limited resources • We implement it by working with the communities that manage our natural resources

  6. Why are we upgrading it? • CMAs started in mid 2004 • First Catchment Action Plan for the Lachlan was published in 2006 • The world has changed • Requirement in NSW State plan that all CMAs upgrade their plan by March 2013 • The Natural Resources Commission’s role

  7. Why are we upgrading it?

  8. social-ecological systems adaptive community values science partnerships

  9. economic ^ Social-ecological systems humans in the landscape we live here, we use things in the landscape for food, shelter and fibre in doing this, we change the landscape It’s a two way thing!

  10. economic ^ Social-ecological systems Landscapes Livelihoods Lifestyles

  11. Resilience • “the ability of the system to absorb disturbance and still retain its basic function and structure” To change state – and still function (could also lose function) Distance to threshold – ability to absorb shock Ability to change – and then change back

  12. North Atlantic Kelp Forests Over fishing Atlantic cod Kelp Sea urchins Crabs

  13. North Atlantic Kelp Forests Kelp Sea urchins Crabs

  14. North Atlantic Kelp Forests Atlantic cod ? Kelp Over fishing Sea urchins Crabs

  15. Sea urchins Kelp Cod

  16. Don’t you love it when things just work? • Each of those little pieces when arranged perfectly comes together like magic. • What would happen if just one of these pieces changed? • or was missing?

  17. So what is your role? • To provide your knowledge, experience, observations of howthis landscape works • Help us understand this landscape • We will be asking you to: • Explore • Consider • Inspire

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